About Us

We’re Built To Serve You

Lumber One started as a small lumber yard in Avon, Minnesota, and has grown to one of the premier custom home builders in Minnesota.

From its modest beginnings, Lumber One prospered under the leadership of Terry Schmid. After purchasing Avon Lumber Yard in 1962, he expanded the company by purchasing the Cold Spring Lumber Yard in 1967. In 1987, both companies changed their names to Lumber One.

Now under the leadership of Terry’s daughter, Barb Brandes, and son, Ted Schmid, Lumber One is known for expertise as leading Minnesota home builders for:

New home construction with a variety of affordable plans in preferred developments

Energy efficient home building and home energy audits

Apartment contractors

Large- and small-scale remodeling

Commercial construction

Move-in ready new homes for sale in Minnesota

Lumber One provides full-service building and contractor materials and services, including our lumber yard, interior design services, drafting, retail store with showroom and mortgage services. See our work or contact us about your building project.

Quote from the CEO

“At Lumber One, a family-run business, we strive to bring honesty and integrity to all our interactions with co-workers, customers and suppliers. It is simply expected that everyone conduct business with an open and honest manner. Your word or handshake to a customer represents the commitment and integrity at Lumber One, and the company will honor that commitment.” -Barb Brandes CEO-

HOME PLANS

View our collection of Home Plans, or contact us and let the design experts at Lumber One help develop a custom plan to perfectly fit your needs.View Home Plans >

FOR SALE

See our new model homes for sale in Heritage Place (Sartell) and Stirling Waters (St. Cloud) neighborhoods. Click below for more details today!View Homes For Sale >

PHOTO GALLERY

Check out pictures of new homes, before and after photos of remodels and many other great examples of Lumber One’s work!Visit the Photo Gallery >

Everyone who visits our new home wants to know who built it. You can be sure we spread the Lumber One word!

Bill and Linda Crippes

Thanks to your knowledge on financing, our dream came true. You realized our financial situation and really bent over backward to help us. You deserve the name Lumber One, because you’re number one in planning, and more importantly, in the way you treat your customers.

The Grays

We recently moved into our second home built by Lumber One. Again, we received first-class service from start to finish. Lumber One has truly made building a pleasurable experience.

Mike and Renee Stoebe

Home Building Dream Comes True – We have been in our new home for several months now and would like to let you know how much we love it. We are very pleased we decided to build and even more pleased that we decided to have Lumber One make it all come true for us.

Robert and Dawn Witschen

Regrets after using a Cheap Builder – Unfortunately, I went with another builder that would build my house for me for a little less money. I should have realized the quality was going to suffer some if I did go with a cheaper builder. I found out afterwards that quality and the way a person is treated means more than saving a bit of money. My brother had you build his house in Avon, and he is very, very satisfied. You took good care of him during and most importantly after the sale. I really just wanted to let you know that people appreciate the good work you do. Best of luck to Lumber One. Thanks again.

Robert Koopmeiners

Thank you to everyone at Lumber One for all the hard work and dedication that went into building my home. I love it!